Kubra Khademi, born in 1989 in Afghanistan, is a Hazara artist, performer, and feminist. Her work explores themes of exile, identity, and womanhood. She studied fine arts at Kabul University and later at Beaconhouse University in Lahore, where she began creating public performances—a practice she continued in Kabul as a response to patriarchal oppression. After her 2015 performance Armor, she was forced to flee Afghanistan and eventually found refuge in France, becoming a French citizen in 2020.

Based in Paris, Khademi has received several honors, including an MFA Fellowship at the Pantheon and being named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2016. She has held residencies at the Fiminco Foundation (Paris) and the Salomon Foundation (New York), and was a finalist for the Emerige Revelations in 2019. Her recent works include The Golden Horizon (2023), premiered at Théâtre de la Ville, and major solo exhibitions at Collection Lambert and Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern. Represented by Galerie Eric Mouchet since 2020 and supported by Latitudes Prod. since 2016, her art has been showcased globally—from the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg to the Bangkok Biennale. In 2024, she co-authored her first graphic novel, La fille et le dragon, with anthropologist Nicole Lapierre, published by Éditions Denoël.